A very cool contest being put on by DailyBlogTips has officially launched this weekend. Throughout the month of November over 100 different blogs are going to be competing to see who can add the most RSS subscribers. StockTradingToGo is a participant.

October has officially concluded and with it the last top commentator is now ready to be crowned. This will be the unofficial last top commentator contest as comments moving forward will be disabled for new blog posts.

Ever thought that one monitor just wasn’t cutting the workload? Computer desktop space is critical for success and in an investor’s world there is never enough monitors for trading, never! But, then again you could just hook up six 24″ LCD monitors together with two laptops…

Tomorrow the real GDP numbers are set to be released, with the going estimate being -.5%. The well-known standard states that two quarters of negative GDP equals an official recession (others disagree).  While things are bad now, the pinch on consumer spending is being taken one step further; credit cards are going bye bye.

With three trading days remaining, I will be happy to see the month of October pass.  During this month, what had been a bad bear market turned viscous.  At the beginning of October the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) was 18.2% lower for the calendar year and 23.4% below the peak of 14,164 achieved in [...]

I was lucky enough to receive a early copy of Steve Pavlina’s new book, Personal Development for Smart People before it was released to the public. Through the book Steve opens the mind to a vast array of thoughts and feelings that allow for dramatic personal growth.

Bear markets are known to bottom about 60% through a standard recession. If investors wait until economic data supports a turn around they typically have already missed a substantial rally. By watching stocks that hold key multi-year support levels investors can get an upper hand buying potential new market leaders early and with confidence.

The market rallied late today to close in the green (less the NASDAQ -.73%) and is still barely holding onto dear life as it tries to keep its support intact. This highly volatile sideways action the last two weeks has in turn created some hard to miss bear flags.